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Thorax — Pronotum in tho middle and on the posterior margin pale ochreous, the 
remainder of the disc fuscous. Scutellum pale, sometimes witli an oblique 
fuscous streak on each side. Elytra delicately punctulate. Clavus fuscous, 
the base broadly, the inner margin narrowly, and the claval-suture indis- 
tinctly, pale ochreous. Corivmi with 3 long, fuscous, longitudinal streaks, 
of which the longest is on the posterior inner angle, the other 2 shorter, 
less distinct, on the middle of the disc, all 3 more or less confluent ; anterior 
margin pale, with a long fuscous streak in the middle, and one before the 
apex. Membrane pale, fuscous in the middle and inwardly. Legs ochreous, 
posterior tarsi with brown cilia. Length rather more than 1 line. 
Distinguished from S. minutissima especially by its larger size, 
greater breiidth of the head, and lighter colour. Varies according to 
maturity in the darkness of the markings, very young examples being 
almost wholly pale. 
A few examples were taken by Dr. Power, at St. Leonard's Forest, 
Sussex, in 1866. 
Erratum. 
At page 261, 10th line from the bottom, insert a comma after " white " and 
erase the one after " margin." 
Page 263, 15th line from the bottom, for " 4th " read " 3rd." 
Lee, A-pril, 1869. 
Note on the oviposition of Octotemnus glahriculus. — Last autumn, I had a portion 
of a thick white tough fungus (Polyporus ?J containing this beetle abun- 
dantly, several of them being engaged in oviposition. The female beetle by herself 
makes a sinuous gallery of rather more than her own width ; the eggs, each of 
which is of a somewhat flattened ovoidal form, its longest diameter being about 
one-fifth the length of the beetle, are laid at the bottom of little cavities, irregularly 
disposed along the sides of the burrow. The egg, laid on its flattened side, just fits 
the bottom of the cavity ; the remainder of the cavity, which is wide towards tho 
burrow, is filled up level with its wall with the finely comminuted fragments of 
fungus removed from the end of the burrow, and so firmly packed, as easily to come 
out in one mass ; six was the largest number of eggs I found so placed along one 
burrow, but I had no reason to suppose this to be the full number, as tho beetle 
was still at work. Having placed some beetles on a fresh portion of fungus, I 
found, at the end of a week, that a newly-formed burrow contained three eggs. — 
T. Algernon Chapman, M.D., Abergavenny, April, 1869. 
Note on the pairing of Cheiropachus quadrum. — Some months ago I picked up a 
few branches broken from an apple tree, which were completely infested by Scohjtus 
rugulosus ;* beneath the bai-k were numerous Chalcididous larvae, which had preyed 
on the Scolyti, so numerous, that they must have destroyed quite half of them. 
Having kept them in a warm room, though the Scolytus is only just beginning to 
appear (April 8th), the parasites emerged during February ; they were chiefly 
Cheiropachus quadrum, of which a dozen or two came out every day for some time. 
As the opportunity of making the following observation cannot be frequent, I think 
it is probably worth recording. 
I shall be happy to send the Scolytxu to any one who will enclose return postage.—!. A. C. 
